Bluefish, a fast and lightweight code editor for Ubuntu

About Bluefish

In the next article we will see how to install Bluefish on our Ubuntu system. This is a good editor aimed at programmers and web developers. You will give us many options for users to write code for our websites and shell scripts. Bluefish supports quite a few programming and markup languages. This is an open source development project, released under the GNU GPL license.

Bluefish is a cross-platform application It runs on most desktop operating systems, including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, Windows, OpenBSD, and Solaris. This application will provide web developers with a well-designed and practical graphical application for editing files and creating websites.

Bluefish tries to be a light and clean code editor. This editor it starts very fast (even on a netbook) and loads hundreds of files in seconds. Project support will allow users to work efficiently on multiple projects. At the same time it will allow us to automatically restore the configuration of each of these projects.

BlueFish Features

Bluefish will give us the option to perform a search and replace in an efficient and powerful way, with support for regular expressions, subpattern replacement, and search and replace in files on disk.

Some of the key features of this program is that it includes support for a wide range of markup and programming languages. In addition, it offers us multi-thread support for remote files, we will also have unlimited undo and redo functionality. We will have la possibility of integrating external programs. We will also have powerful search and replace functionality as well as project support.

Another very useful feature is the ability to edit files in full screen mode, which will allow you to concentrate on developing the code, losing the distractions of the OS. In addition, it has the functionality of spell check strings and comments which is the conscious programming language.

Bluefish Editor

Bluefish Editor

It should also be noted that the program has a sidebar of fragments, external filters, automatic recovery of changes, character map that supports Unicode characters. It will also give us options on uploading and downloading websites, support for customizable programming languages, support for multiple encodings, support for bookmarks, support for ZenCoding, HTML toolbar and many more.

Several language files have been improved over previous versions. There are also several fixes for newer versions of gtk and for gtk in Wayland. A new feature in version 2.2.10 is the ability to import / export syntax color styles, including styles for a light and dark theme.

The above are just some of its features. If you want to know more about the features that this editor offers users, you can take a look at its Wiki.

Install BlueFish from PPA

You can find the latest Bluefish packages in the following PPA maintained by Klaus Vormweg. To add this repository, just follow the instructions below, and install the software. Next and after opening the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) you can install its latest version:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:klaus-vormweg/bluefish-gtk2 &&  sudo apt update && sudo apt install bluefish

Right now you can install the same version from the PPA as from the Ubuntu Software option. You can consult more information about how to install Bluefish in the download section from your website.

You can also install this program from the Software option from your Ubuntu. So you have different options to get hold of this editor.

Uninstall BlueFish

If after trying it the program does not convince you, you can eliminate it very easily. You just have to open the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and we write the following command in it:

sudo apt remove bluefish && sudo add-apt-repository ppa:klaus-vormweg/bluefish-gtk2 && sudo apt autoremove

With the simple steps here, whoever wants to can now try the Bluefish editor on their Ubuntu. If you are an occasional programmer who needs an editor with a simple learning curve, or an advanced programmer who does not like heavy IDEs like Eclipse or Netbeans, Bluefish is a good choice.


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  1.   Esteve Montalvo Camps said

    Thank you for sharing. He will try.

  2.   Joshua Portillo said

    How do I install applications to my ubuntu, the system asks me for a code to install

  3.   Ekaitz said

    Is there a way to download color schemes for the edit window? The 2 it brings are, to my liking, not very legible.

    1.    Damien A. said

      Hello. Maybe this link to manual Bluefish can help you with what you are looking for. Salu2.